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Tired of feeling like we were the only people in the country who hadn't profited from the stock market boom, a month ago a bunch of friends and I decided to scrape together some money so we could get in on the action. Christening our makeshift investment club the Kirkland SuperFund (KSF), it wasn't long before we'd opened an account with one of the low-fee internet brokerage houses and started talking about how to allocate our $2,000 war chest...
Toothpaste is pretty damn unsanitary. I realized this with a new vengeance recently while brushing my teeth. Bleary-eyed and half-asleep, I had squirted too much of the stuff onto my toothbrush and found myself trying to scrape the excess back into the tube. I awoke with a start when I saw what I was doing. All those nasty little microbes, exfoliated off each toothbrush with painful accuracy back onto the tube for the next user...
...year (Disney has done it three times). Even without a cartoon lion, Sony reached that nice, round number in record time (Aug. 31, beating Disney's best date--Nov. 23--by a stretch). And Sony expects to surpass the industry record of $1.22 billion, if it can scrape up the remainder on films such as Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi thriller Starship Troopers (a picture it's splitting with Disney), and As Good As It Gets, from Terms of Endearment director James L. Brooks...
...Hoods' Thanksgiving dinner is particularly telling: the awkwardness of trying to fit into a traditional familial mold is immediately apparent, but the source of that awkwardness is much harder to locate. In a dining room designed in functional '70s style--sleek metal chairs scrape against a stone floor, and large windows display the gloomy weather outside--Ben Hood asks his 14-year-old daughter Wendy (Christina Ricci) to say grace. Wendy can't take him seriously, so instead she delivers a monologue thanking God for the food they are about to gorge themselves upon, and then begins rambling about...
Members of a social club on Mount Auburn Street were punished by the University about seven years ago for stealing four to five parking meters, according to Flynn. Employees of the parking department followed a trail of scrape marks down the sidewalk, up the front steps of the club and across hardwood floors to find the stolen parking meters